The Kurds, whose support would push Mr. Maliki over the top, sent the prime minister of their semiautonomous region in northern Iraq, Barham Salih, to Baghdad for negotiations over longstanding Kurdish demands for territorial concessions and greater control of the region's oil.
Earlier this month Iran countered the so-called P5+1 group's longstanding demand for talks with a flowery proposal for broad strategic negotiations that would bury the nuclear issue.
Holding to a longstanding pledge, he ruled out negotiations under fire.
Several people involved in the negotiations said that longstanding tensions in the Disney family had been overcome to create the hall.
Individual countries within Asia, notably Thailand and Singapore, are also busy negotiating their own bilateral deals with key trading partners.What, then, remains of East Asia's longstanding commitment to multilateral trade negotiations, embodied in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and its forebears?
A measured waltz of negotiation is "a longstanding tradition that is more important these days".
Columbia has a longstanding policy of not commenting on negotiations, though it is worth noting that the remaining two business owners are being officially represented by legal counsel in their discussions with the university".
In a last-minute turnaround, the Oneida Indians and New York State have agreed to resume negotiations to settle a longstanding land dispute in central New York, the court-appointed mediator said yesterday.
The reversal of the Taliban's longstanding public refusal to negotiate with the United States — and the administration's willingness to reciprocate — punctuated a highly compartmentalized effort that has proceeded in fits and starts, with the knowledge of very few officials, according to administration and Afghan officials involved in the negotiations.
